Historical Perspective of the Role of the Scrum Master

Read Article

What To Do In the First 90 Days as a Scrum Master

Read Article

Common Complaint: “Scrum Doesn’t Work Here!”

Read Article

The Worst of the Worst #DevLife Jokes

It was grueling. Brutal. Torturous! I curated the most insufferable jokes about product development. Scrum Master jokes

Read in 3 minutes

How To Prevent Another Phoenix Pay System Inferno

An IT system called Phoenix was meant to replace old payroll systems in Canada’s federal government. They estimated it would cost $5.7…

Read in 4 minutes

Design Agencies Are Fun, Development Teams Are Stressful

“Development contracts keep me awake at night. Design contracts don’t.” Meet Alex. Those are her words. Alex is Product Manager with a…

Read in 3 minutes

Throwback Thursday: AgileQuestions 2011

Blast from the past! On September 29, 2011, I posted the inaugural episode of my “Agile Questions” livestream. For the next 29 weeks, I…

Read in 2 minutes

A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern

Antipattern: A pattern that may be commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in practice. A few years ago, I was hired…

Read in 3 minutes

Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes

Dear software development manager, Excellent software teams can deploy code multiple times per day. Deploying code multiple times per day…

Read in 2 minutes

No Longer Tolerate ‘Blocked’ or ‘Waiting’ States

1 Month ago, I shared a thought at LinkedIn and the response was significant. It’s nice to see widespread agreement that this one, simple…

Read in 4 minutes

Empowerment Retro

Foreword The following article was originally published in 2015 by my friend, colleague, and mentor,…

Read in 3 minutes

Team Retrospective — “Feeding the Machine for Corporate Review Season”

Foreword The following article was originally published in 2012 by my friend, colleague, and mentor,…

Read in 9 minutes

An Agile Not-for-Profit Organization

Guidelines that Encourage Action If you feel that work needs to be done – it probably does. So, go ahead with it. If you feel responsible…

Read in 4 minutes

Certification & Training Paths for Agile Practitioners

Read Article

Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams

The Problem With so much discussion about teams and their work environments, it’s important we be careful with terminology…

Read in 4 minutes

Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!

The map below illustrates a classic problem with the common use of 'velocity' as a metric. Scenario Your family travels each weekend to…

Read in 1 minutes

I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org

Roughly 600 people worldwide are authorized, by the authors of Scrum, to teach Scrum. I am honoured to be part of that expert community. I…

Read in 2 minutes

The Art of Agile Product Documentation

A Workshop Facilitation Guide This sense-making workshop helps teach a team how to simplify valuable documentation and reduce wasteful…

Read in 3 minutes

Looking for Work as a Scrum Master? Choose Wisely.

It appears to me there are more jobs available for Scrum Masters than ever before! Why is it so hard for some people to find employment…

Read in 4 minutes

Canada’s Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe

What is the Phoenix Pay System? The Phoenix system is one of Canada’s most amazing blunders. It’s a multi-billion dollar failed project. In…

Read in 1 minutes

A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work

A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle…

Read in 3 minutes

A Week in the Life of a Scrum Team

A Workshop Facilitation Guide The purposes of this activity are twofold: To illustrate a few of the many real challenges that Scrum Masters…

Read in 4 minutes

A Book Review: “The Great ScrumMaster”, by Zuzana Šochová

In Brief Buy it. You won’t be disappointed. In Depth I read the book in 3 sittings. The First Sitting Zuzi gave her book to me in October…

Read in 3 minutes

Etymology of ‘Management’

I was studying the etymology of ‘management’ recently. I made a Sankey Diagram with D3js based on Mike Bostock’s awesome Javascript and…

Read in 1 minutes

A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch

Warning: Your competitors are not the patient type. One of the most common pitfalls I see in companies trying to employ Agile practices…

Read in 1 minutes

© 2001–2024 by David Sabine

Licensed by